Huntington Reno

The backyard was a project all unto itself and one of the few places we were able to do a lot of work ourselves.

This is what we started with

My sledgehammer, Mr. Smashy, didn’t get me very far

A few hours with a jackhammer got things going

Then it was cistern time

With a lot of help from my father, the former tree surgeon, the dying tree in the back was brought down

A lot more sky to be seen post chop but the fence took the brunt of the fall

Old fence out

New fence on its way in but much debris to be cleared out before any more progress could be made

After waking up to a pallet of gorgeous sod outside our front door one morning that a good friend of the family (who just happens to be a Head Greenskeeper) helped us acquire and trekking it through the house roll by roll the backyard is complete, at least for now